As construction giant Caterpillar announces 700 more layoffs at its Grenoble factory, French workers held office bosses hostage. This is the third time that this has happened this month. Previous incidents occurred at 3M and Sony. In both other cases, management was...
The European butterfly Maculina rebeli has learned to raise its young as parasites, so that ants will be tricked into feeding them and giving them special treatment. They give off a scent that mimics the ants so...
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Monday, as Iceland's Parliament resigned and US President Barack Obama stated that the financial crisis would get "dramatically worse," several companies announced layoffs that could total at least 70,000 jobs...
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Christmas, need some money, take the ATM machine, DEC-25 " PUNTA GORDA: Police are searching for a person of interest in connection with an ATM theft at a First Community Bank. Punta Gorda police say just after 1...
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A common mistake when searching for alien life forms is to look up into the sky for something big. But alien life is right here, at our feet, in our backyards. Millions of tiny but frightening aliens, many just a...
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"Insects and offal top the list. No. 10 is caterpillar pretzels, and uterus sausage slides in at No. 2. In between, though, are a couple of weak entries like stuffed roasted goat, which, while not everyday fare,...
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Tired of high home building prices? Print your house using a concrete jet printer and a CAD model. 3d printing has been around for a while, but this is one of the first large scale applications that looks like...
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"A couple days ago we drove with Mike to a jobsite to check on the progress. He called me out of the van to look at a clump of caterpillars hanging from a bush. As we looked around, we noticed that they were...
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This terrorist attack will further escalate tension between two feuding sides and can also affect the peace talks."A Palestinian construction worker killed three people when he drove a large bulldozer into oncoming traffic on a busy Jerusalem street yesterday, crushing...
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Not a Flaming Lips album, but a real-life study done on cognition and life cycles: butterflies remember what happened to them way back in the caterpillar days."In a study published yesterday in Public Library of...
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"The Siege is Broken
The Palestinian people took their destiny in their own hands today and smashed down the wall that divided Gaza from Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of people left their prison and walked into Egypt and bought up food, fuel and everything else in sight. It...
CATERPILLAR ANNOUNCES MAJOR INVESTMENT IN CHINA WITH PLANS TO BUILD SMALL AND MEDIUM DIESEL ENGINES
The company launches core elements of its multi-year investment plan for China
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Beijing (ANTARA...
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"Belgian soldiers are to be deployed in the country's forests to combat the menace of hairy caterpillars, Reuters reports.
The procession caterpillars - so named because of their habit of marching in convoy -...
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